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Portable Hard Drive Not Working

Postby maxyoz » Wed Jul 10, 2013 8:57 am

Hi all,

I was doing 150 game highlight movies for Ty Allen and Ruory Kirkby last night when my Verbatim 500GB Portable HD dropped, now it doesn't work. Thank God I got their movies finished first, but every Glenelg movie I have done since 2006, including most games, are on there plus a truck load of photos and work stuff. Yes, I know, Back it up, but it kind of was my Back Up.

Anyway, does anybody know of a restorer or somebody in Adelaide who might be able to retrieve the data and put it on a new Portable HDD?

Many of you might think that it is probably best not to have these Glenelg games anymore, but I have countless hours of work put into these and it's the only real record I have.

Thanks in advance.
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Re: Portable Hard Drive Not Working

Postby Dog_ger » Wed Jul 10, 2013 6:26 pm

Why do you only back up to 1(one) hard drive..?

If you don't back up to 3(three) hard drives, you haven't backed up. :(

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Re: Portable Hard Drive Not Working

Postby dedja » Wed Jul 10, 2013 8:11 pm

Disregard the resident moron Maxy, email sent.
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Re: Portable Hard Drive Not Working

Postby Pseudo » Sat Jul 13, 2013 9:51 pm

dedja wrote:Disregard the resident moron Maxy, email sent.

Did the email mention subzero temperature?
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Re: Portable Hard Drive Not Working

Postby dedja » Sat Jul 13, 2013 9:55 pm

Easy Tiger, I'm hoping the HDD isn't frozen ...
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Re: Portable Hard Drive Not Working

Postby Dog_ger » Wed Aug 07, 2013 7:37 pm

Well, what is the outcome..?

Everything recovered.. :D
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Re: Portable Hard Drive Not Working

Postby CentreHalfBench » Fri Aug 16, 2013 9:10 am

Can you give us any more information about what went wrong with it? What happens when you connect it to your computer? Is there any response?

Hopefully it's just a damaged partition table or a bad sector here and there.
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Re: Portable Hard Drive Not Working

Postby Psyber » Sat Aug 17, 2013 11:56 am

I managed to access data on a malfunctioning hard drive by putting it in a computer as a secondary HDD and booting the computer on one of those active Linux disks using a 32 bit version of Ubuntu that came with a magazine. I copied the data to another plug in HDD.
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Re: Portable Hard Drive Not Working

Postby CentreHalfBench » Mon Aug 19, 2013 7:06 pm

Yeah but his hard drive is a portable.

On a side note, ubuntu is god for disk repairs!
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Re: Portable Hard Drive Not Working

Postby Psyber » Tue Aug 20, 2013 6:42 pm

CentreHalfBench wrote:Yeah but his hard drive is a portable.
On a side note, ubuntu is god for disk repairs!
Mine was portable but I could unscrew the case and remove it.
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Re: Portable Hard Drive Not Working

Postby Punk Rooster » Thu Aug 22, 2013 11:33 pm

Dog_ger wrote:Why do you only back up to 1(one) hard drive..?

If you don't back up to 3(three) hard drives, you haven't backed up. :(

My experience...

Costly but safe. :D

It's only money but in the long run it's cheaper. :D

There is always information that can never be recovered. :(

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Re: Portable Hard Drive Not Working

Postby RustyCage » Wed Sep 04, 2013 2:42 am

Punk Rooster wrote:
Dog_ger wrote:Why do you only back up to 1(one) hard drive..?

If you don't back up to 3(three) hard drives, you haven't backed up. :(

My experience...

Costly but safe. :D

It's only money but in the long run it's cheaper. :D

There is always information that can never be recovered. :(

have you heard of the "cloud"?


I've a fair few 100GB of photos, so I prefer to back up on hard drives personally, I'd go few a few months internet allowance just recovering photos, let alone anything else if I backed up everything from a cloud
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Re: Portable Hard Drive Not Working

Postby stan » Fri Apr 04, 2014 9:58 pm

Quick one all. I play movies from my portable HD through my xbox but the xbox only sees Fat32. Any way to format a 1Tb drive in fat32?

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Re: Portable Hard Drive Not Working

Postby kickinit » Fri Apr 04, 2014 10:44 pm

stan wrote:Quick one all. I play movies from my portable HD through my xbox but the xbox only sees Fat32. Any way to format a 1Tb drive in fat32?

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Don't know about windows but apple has a disk utility which pretty much does it for you, i'm guessing windows will have one. The HD will need to be wiped to do it though, so you would want to back up anything you have on there.
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